GALE: “It was okay. I just started out my runs too tight. I needed to be freer at the beginning to end up pretty decent at the end. Not too bad though. We’ll take it. I learned another racetrack today and got 300 miles under me so that’s a good thing. Just got to keep digging.” HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO RACE HERE? “It’s a tough racetrack. It’s real rough and but once you get out there and race it’s fun. It’s a lot of fun it’s just that you can’t be tight off. I learned that today. I didn’t really realize it until about the end how tight I really was after I got up there with some of the faster guys that were running pretty good after we got a lap down. I got to follow some of them. We’ll fight back and we’ll be back to get ‘em at Nashville here in a few weeks.” IS IT A FINE LINE TO LOOSEN THE CAR UP BUT NOT MAKE IT TOO LOOSE? “That’s the thing. Yesterday every time they’d free the car up I’d go slower so I just asked ‘em to be a little tighter. But once I figured the track out and where the bumps are at and things like that I could have stood to be a lot freer. It’s one of those things that you’ve got to learn, one of those deals that you’ve go through. This is a different racetrack and I learned a lot today.” WHAT’S THE MAIN THING THAT YOU LEARNED HERE TODAY? “Every time I get in the Nationwide car it’s just more laps and you learn how to drive harder and harder each and every time you strap into one. I think later on this season when I start running some races in a row I’ll get a little more consistent. Kevin and Delana have given me awesome cars and good equipment to drive every week.” WHAT CAN YOU LEARN WHEN YOU GET BEHIND ONE OF THE CUP REGULARS? “They drive so much harder. They’re pushing the car whereas I go in there maybe a little timid, not real sure what it should do or what it’s going to do, where Kevin and Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards and those guys go in there and they don’t even think about it. It’s natural to ‘em now because they do it so much every week.”

BRYAN CLAUSON, No. 41 POLAROID DODGE: “It’s crazy, I think, how fast things change the picture of a day. We were really good there at the end, I think a top-10 car easily. We got caught a lap down, barely, earlier in the race and just kept digging and got the car good there at the end and unfortunately got in that mishap with the 24. I’m not sure really how it got started but he just kind of came sliding up in front of us and didn’t really have anywhere to go. I hate it for my guys. It’s two races in a row, California and here, that we’ve had two things happen to us and take us out that weren’t really our doing. We’re really excited to have Polaroid on the car this weekend and introduce them into the sport. This is their first weekend on a NASCAR car so we’re really excited about that. We didn’t quite have the ending that we hoped for but it was a good day besides the ending there.” HOW HARD DID YOU HIT? “I hit a ton. That one hurt more than California. I’m a little sore but we’ll be all right. We’ll keep digging and go to Bristol next week.”

BRIAN KESELOWSKI, No. 28 CHEVROLET: “I was just riding around. We were going to try to lead a lap and the way the caution worked out they were going to throw the green too quick so we had to stop. We don’t have a whole crew so we did gas only, which was going to be fine. And as the lead lap cars were catching us we were going to go one lap down, which wasn’t a bad deal because for what we were trying to do it was going to be all right and my teammate spun out in front of me [smiles]. I got into him. There was nothing I could do. He went low, I went high. He came back high, I went low and we were in a wreck. It was a bit of an interesting day. After that we were just trying to survive and we survived to a 31st-place finish, which isn’t great but for how bad the car is it’s really not that bad. All in all, the car was going to go pretty good, I think. We were really good in three and four. We struggled in one and two pretty much the whole weekend but we were getting better and that’s all we were trying to do.” HOW MUCH DAMAGE TO THE CAR? “Oh, we knocked the whole front end off the car. I mean, it got the left front from the fender all the way to the middle of the nose, the hood, everything. There isn’t much left of the front of the car [smiles]. It’s unfortunate, but what are you going to do now? It’s done, that’s racing, let’s go on to the next one.”